Okay, so I’m a dog person. In fact, we just got a new puppy at our house (that makes three) and her name is June. Here she is running with pink tulle (and why not?) in the yard. June is at the beginning of her life with a family. She’s only just begun to be […]

By Elisha Cooper I live in New York. I have two daughters, and no dog. When I was a child, we had dogs roaming all over our farm. Because of the freedom they enjoyed, I’ve always been apprehensive about having a dog in the city. Someday we will get a dog, I think. When I […]

By Elisha Cooper I read somewhere that all stories have one of two plots: man leaves town, or, man comes to town. That’s it. I was thinking about this a few years ago while looking through Kevin Henkes’s Kitten’s First Full Moon, which, in its perfect simplicity, captures the man-leaves-town plot exactly, except that in […]

The dog’s name is Homer! Elisha Cooper stopped by Friday to name the pup, review his mechanicals, and talk about his jacket sketches. The Burberry clock is reading 9 degrees today but Elisha’s book—with its wet dogs, shells, hydrangea blossoms, and airy front porch is making us think SUMMER. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg […]